Summary: Cryptography is the foundational building block of Cybersecurity and Privacy. While the field of classical cryptography dealt with security and privacy of data in transit, the modern take on the subject has generalized the scope of its applications to ensuring security and privacy of all forms of digital communication, computation, automation, interaction, transaction and preservation. Thus, it is important to understand the technical aspects of cryptography to appreciate its applications in cybersecurity. The Aim: This cryptography course in Computer Science and Engineering aims to develop your ability to understand how cryptographic algorithms work, to identify the problems associated with the application of cryptography in real-world scenarios, and explain the operation of various cryptographic mechanisms. This course will equip you to know deeply the fundamentals of symmetric key ciphers, hash functions and public key ciphers, enabling you to understand and develop secure cryptography solutions in real life cryptography. It will also introduce you to popular cryptographic libraries and APIs for hands-on implementation of security mechanisms, and some prominent cryptographic standards, guidelines and frameworks from the industry and government bodies.
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Stay the fuck away from this mod. The content could have been manageable if not for Tay Kian Boon being a horrible lecturer. Everything this guy does from the lecture slides, tutorials and even his announcements on blackboard has numerous spelling errors and Singlish. It takes talent to be this consistently disorganized. You will spend more time figuring out what the course is trying to teach than actually learning.
Those who have taken SC3010 Computer Security will get an idea of the teaching style (also co taught by Tay) which is much worse in this.
October 28, 2024
